> PS. This makes me wonder whether and to what degree the structure of the brain's connectome is a necessary prior for AGI.
Well, I wouldn't mix up AGI and AGI by deep learning, and more important I would emphasise that this is a good prior for images. The fundamental insight in CNNs and eventually in this work is that there is a correlation between pairs of nearby pixels. We have something similar for video and audio processing, but nothing remotely similar for other more abstract intelligence tasks.
Well, I wouldn't mix up AGI and AGI by deep learning, and more important I would emphasise that this is a good prior for images. The fundamental insight in CNNs and eventually in this work is that there is a correlation between pairs of nearby pixels. We have something similar for video and audio processing, but nothing remotely similar for other more abstract intelligence tasks.